Reddit Username Generator

Only if your seed does. Feed it a hobby or an in-joke rather than your name and nothing in the list points back at you — the anonymous style goes further and steers clear of places, years and anything a stranger could search. Every idea arrives with the line explaining it, so you can see what it hints at before you commit to it for good.

Not guaranteed. Type one into the username box on the sign-up form and Reddit says whether it’s taken before you create the account.

3 to 20 characters: letters, numbers, hyphens and underscores. No spaces, no periods, and it must be unique. Capitals are shown as you typed them but don’t make a name different.

No. The one exception: if Reddit assigned you a suggested name (the Adjective-Noun-1234 kind) when you signed up with Google or Apple, you get one chance to change it, within the first 30 days. Otherwise a new name means a new account, without your karma.

No. The username is the unique u/ name on every post and comment. The display name is an optional 30-character label on your profile page that can have spaces and emoji and can change any time — but nobody sees it in a thread.

Something that gives away nothing you’d mind a stranger knowing — skip your real name, city and birth year. Beyond that: short, readable, and funny if you can manage it. People do read them.